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In one central Burma village a character straight out of Kipling stepped up to meet the advancing troops. Regimental Sergeant Major Watts, Retired, of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, now deaf, blind and 88 years old, reported. He had spent 55 years in the British Army, 13 years...
In its bare essential, "Owen Wingrave" is the epitaph of a throwback on the British military tradition. Before descending to specific criticism, it may be well to point out that this is not a pacifist play. It attacks the ideals of imperialist wars, not wars whose goal is peace. As...
Since 1936 talented Angela Thirkeil, who is. as stylistically languid as her Pre-Raphaelite grandfather Edward Burne-Jones and as staunchly British as her cousins Stanley Baldwin and the late Rudyard Kipling, has made hay in the fictitious fields of Barsetshire - the mythical English region created by Victorian Novel ist...
One of her fondest childhood memories was of meeting Rudyard Kipling, who was a friend of her father and who had vacationed near her home in Brattlebore, Vermont. After coming to Harvard, she lived a quiet life in Boston, devoting her major interest to the University.
Tinkering Yankee. Lean, sharp, salty, 54-year-old Van Bush is a Yankee whose love of science began, like that of many American boys, in a passion for tinkering with gadgets. Born in Everett, Mass., near Boston, grandson of a whaler and son of a Universalist preacher, Bush feels most...